Level checking apparatus



May 2, 1939. 2 D, K NE Y 2,156,292

LEVEL CHECKING APPARATUS Filed Dec. 8; 1958 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Inventor y 2, 1939- D. E. KENNEDY 2,156,292

LEVEL CHECKING APBARATUS Filed Dec. 8, K958 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 2. I g i a.

Inventor A iiomeys Patented May 2, 1939 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE LEVEL CHECKING APPARATUS Davis Edward Kennedy, Slidell, La.

Application December 8, 1938, Serial No. 244,713

3 Claims.

My invention relates to combination level finding and checking apparatus used in connection with bottled goods.

The object of the invention is to provide an 5 efiicient apparatus for checking the level of fluid in bottles and recording data concerning the same, as, for instance, the amount of variation in the level caused by evaporization, use, or other causes.

To the accomplishment of the foregoing, and subordinate objects presently appearing, the preferred embodiment of my invention has been illustrated in the accompanying drawings, set forth in detail in the succeeding description and defined in the claims appended hereto.

In said drawings:

Figure l is a view in front elevation of the preferred embodiment of my invention.

Figure 2 is a view in side elevation.

Figure 3 is a fragmentary view in top plan drawn to an enlarged scale.

Figure 4 is a view of the shaft, pinions, and hand wheels of the'rock and pinion drive,

Figure 5 is a view in perspective of one of the frame posts.

Figure 6 is a view in perspective of one of the tablets.

Referring to the drawings by numerals, the illustrated embodiment of my invention comprises a panel-like elongated base I of any suitable material, such as wood, provided at one end thereof with a pair of opposed front and rear feet 2 and at the opposite end thereof with a single foot 3, said feet having the form of hand screws vertically adjustable in edge lugs 4 on said base to level the base I and having fiat enlarged lower ends 5. The first mentioned end of the base I provides a support 6 for a bottle 1.

Arising from the base I in the longitudinal center thereof and to one side of the support 6 is a frame comprising a pair of laterally spaced, flat, vertical end bars 8 of suitable metal, having suitably secured to the inside faces thereof a pair of shorter vertical, squared posts 9, the bars and posts being anchored in any preferred manner at the base ends thereof to said base I.

A pair of lower front and rear horizontal keeper bars ll of fiat metal are secured at the ends thereof to the base ends of the posts 9, upon opposite sides of the latter, as at H, to extend along the top of said base I. A similar pair of front and rear upper keeper bars l2 are secured, as at l3, to the upper ends of the posts 9 upon opposite sides thereof in laterally spaced relation.

Fitting between the posts 9, with the lower and upper ends thereof interposed between the lower and upper pairs of keeper bars l and I2, is a series of squared vertical posts it of wood, papier-mach, or the like, forming tablets, said tablets M being of like size and fitting together side by side for removal or insertion as required, and forming when inserted a fiat sectional recording board of removable and replaceable tablets resting at the base ends thereof on the base l. The tablets M are graduated on the front faces thereof uniformly, as at I5, said graduations forming horizontal lines extending across the series, and the tablets forming vertical columns. Graduations I may be spaced in inches, fractions of an inch, or meters, or any other desired unit of measurement.

The end bars 8 function as guides for a vertically adjustable line finding carriage comprising a pair of metal sleeves l5, vertically slidable on said bars and connected by a line finding rod ll extending horizontally therebetween across the front faces of the tablets M. The sleeves 16 are vertically adjustable by means of a rack and pinion drive comprising a pair of toothed pinions I8 fast on opposite ends of a horizontal shaft l9 journalled in ears 20 on the rear sides of the sleeves l6, said pinions meshing with teeth 2| provided on the rear sides of the bars 8. A hand Wheel 22 fast on one end of the shaft I9 provides for rotating the same, together With the pinions E8, to adjust the rod ll up and down as desired. The sleeve l6 adjacent the bottle support 6 has extending therefrom a pointer 23 adapted to extend alongside the bottle I and to be moved up and down with the line finding rod ll.

In front of the described frame and line finding carriage is a column, or tablet, locating member in the form of an upstanding yoke 24 comprising a pair of side rods 25, a sleeve 26 connecting the lower ends of the rods 25, and a bridge part 21 connecting the upper ends of said rods and terminating in an eye 28. The rods 25 are spaced apart in correspondence with the width of each tablet l4 or, in other words, columns formed by the latter. A pair of upper and lower horizontal guide rods 29 and 30 support the member 24 for manual movement across the tablets from one to the other, the upper rod 29 slidably supporting the eye 28 and having its ends fixed in the bars 8, respectively, as at 3|, and the lower rod 30 slidably supporting the sleeve 26 and provided with'downturned ends 32 anchored in any suitable manner to the base I.

The described apparatus is adapted for various uses in connection with keeping of records of the 55 fluid contents of bottles, glasses, or the like, the principal use being that of charting the different levels of various bottles on individual record forming tablets Hi. In this use, the described line finding carriage is adjusted by means of the hand wheel 22 and the described rack and pinion drive therefor until the pointer 23 registers with the fluid level in the bottle 1, This operation, simultaneously adjusts the line finding rod I! to the proper graduation on the selected related tablet l4 which is located by manual adjustment of the member 24 along the guide rods 29 and 30, after which the selected data may be marked on the related tablets |4 As before explained, the tablets l4 may be removed and replaced or interchanged as desired, in accordance with the character or records being kept.

The foregoing will, it is believed, suffice to impart a clear understanding of my invention Without further explanation.

Manifestly, the invention as described, is sus-' ceptible of modification without departing-from the inventive concept and right is herein reserved to such modifications as fall within the scope of the subjoined claims.

What I claim is:

1. In apparatus of the class described, a base for supporting a fiuidcontaining bottle, a frame arising from the base alongside the bottle, a plurality of squared elongated tablets removably and interchangeably mounted on end in said frame side by side for marking of data thereon selectively, said tablets having line graduations spaced vertically thereon, a line finding carriage including a line finding rod in front of said tablets and mounted on said frame for vertical movement to register said rod with selected graduations on the tablets, and a pointer extending from said carriage alongside the bottle for adjustment by the carriage in accordance with the fluid level in said bottle.

2. In apparatus of the class described, a base for supporting a fluid containing bottle, a frame arising from the base alongside the bottle, a. plurality of squared elongated tablets removably and interchangeably mounted on end in said frame side by side for marking of data thereon selectively, said tablets having line graduations spaced vertically thereon, a line finding carriage including a line finding rod in front of said tablets and mounted on saidframe for vertical movement to register said rod with selected graduations on the tablets, and a pointer extending from said carriage alongside the bottle for adjustment by the carriage in accordance with the fluid level in said bottle, and a vertically disposed tablet locating member mounted on said base and frame for lateral movement across the tablets to register the same'with a selected tablet, said member comprising .vertical side bars for the insertion of a markertherebetween to mark the selected tablet.

3. In apparatus of the class described, a base for supporting a fluid containing bottle, a'frame arising from the base alongside the bottle, a plurality of squared elongated tablets removably mounted on end in said frame side by side for marking of data thereon selectively, said tablets having line graduations spaced vertically thereon, a line finding carriage including a line finding rod in front of said tablets and mounted on said frame for vertical movement to register said rod with selected 'graduations on the-tablets, andta pointer extending from said I carriage alongside the bottle for adjustment by the-carriageinam cordancewith the fluid level in said bottle, and a vertically disposed tablet locating member mounted on said base and frame for lateral movement across the tablets to register the same with a selected tablet.

DAVIS EDWARD KENNEDY. 

